The City of Brampton has renewed its push for provincial government funding for a university, after the Doug Ford government pulled the plug on a previously approved Ryerson satellite campus last October. The city announced the launch of a new campaign dubbed “BramptonU,” aimed at attracting partnerships and lobbying the provincial government to fund a full university campus in Canada’s ninth-largest city. According to a new website dedicated to the initiative, the city is exploring “partnerships and approaches” to build and operate a brick-and-mortar Brampton University campus, possibly including student housing. “We need the Province to commit funding and pass legislation to launch BramptonU,” says the city on the site. There is no municipal funding currently allocated for a Brampton university, but the city has set aside $300,000 to create a “blueprint for bringing BramptonU into existence.”“Right now, BramptonU is a movement, a process to bring a full university to Brampton,” said the city.

Source: thestar November 29, 2019 17:37 UTC